Some Good Questions for the New Year

Posted on by Marty Schoenleber, Jr.

Monday Discussion

The year draws to a close. A new year approaches, peaking over the horizon this coming Friday. Who will hear the gospel from you this next year? How will they hear it? How will they see it? How will they experience it?

There are some that God will place in your path this year unknown to you today. There are others—friends, family, acquaintances, neighbors, coaches, teachers of your children, mailmen, UPS delivery men, the gal at the Walmart, the mechanic at the shop, the child who skins their knee in front of your house, the woman who locks herself out of her house and comes knocking at your door—all of them need you to be a letter from God.

You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. (2 Cor. 3:2)

  • What’s your plan?
  • What’s your prayer?
  • What’s your hope?
  • Who is on your team?

Good questions to begin the New Year with. And to pray over. Share it with us. Inspire us. Let the rest of us learn from you.

3 thoughts on “Some Good Questions for the New Year”

  1. What’s your plan?

    To Pray More. Inspired by much reading in Edwards, Spurgeon, MLJ and this story from the life of George Muller:

    “On August 8th, 1882,” Mr. Mueller says, “we began our ninth Missionary Tour. The first place at which I preached was Weymouth, where I spoke in public four times. From Weymouth we went, by way of Calais and Brussels, to Dusseldorf on the Rhine, where I preached many times six years before. During this visit, I spoke there in public eight times. Regarding my stay at Dusseldorf, for the encouragement of the reader, I relate the following circumstance. During our first visit to that city, in the year 1876, a godly City Missionary came to me one day, greatly tried, because he had six sons, for whose conversion he had been praying many years, and yet they remained unconcerned about their souls, and he desired me to tell him what to do. My reply was, ‘Continue to pray for your sons, and expect an answer to your prayer, and you will have to praise God.’

    Now, when after six years I was again in the same city, this dear man came to me and said he was surprised he had not seen before himself what he ought to do, and that he had resolved to take my advice and more earnestly than ever give himself to prayer. Two months after he saw me, five of his six sons were converted within eight days, and have for six years now walked in the ways of the Lord, and he had hope that the sixth son also was beginning to be concerned about his state before God. May the Christian reader be encouraged by this, should his prayers not at once be answered; and, instead of ceasing to pray, wait upon God all the more earnestly and per-severingly, and expect answers to his petitions.”

    What’s your prayer? That God will have mercy on His people and send revival.

    What’s your hope? To see His Glory.

    Who is on your team? Anyone I can get to join me!

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  2. Tom,

    Hope you had a great Christmas brother. How did the discipleship conference go? I like your plan. It raises two more questions: Who will hold you accountable to work your plan? How will you measure your faithfulness to the plan?

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  3. Hi Marty,

    You may have me confused with another Tom you know because I have not been to a discipleship conference lately. Though I’m sure I would have enjoyed one had I gone! 😉

    In answer to your questions:

    1) Accountable to a few groups I pray with.

    2) I have no idea how to do that except to continue to persevere.

    Grace!

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